{"product_id":"unacknowledged-legislation-writers-in-the-public-sphere","title":"Unacknowledged Legislation","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA celebration of writers and their encounters with politics and public life from one of our greatest critics.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eUnacknowledged Legislation\u003c\/i\u003e is a  celebration of Percy Shelley's assertion that 'poets are the  unacknowledged legislators of the world'. In over thirty magnificent  essays on writers from Oscar Wilde to Salman Rushdie, and with his  trademark wit, rigour and flair, master critic Christopher Hitchens  dispels the myth of politics as a stone tied to the neck of literature.  Instead, Hitchens argues that when all parties in the state were agreed  on a matter, it was the individual pens that created the space for a  true moral argument.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eI have been asked whether I wish to nominate a successor, and inheritor, a dauphin or delfino. I have decided to name Christopher Hitchens. - Gore Vidal\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32038468321363,"sku":"","price":31.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781782394686.jpg?v=1777030252","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/unacknowledged-legislation-writers-in-the-public-sphere","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}